Bug Resilience Project: Work Package 1: Lowering Technical Debt in Participating FOSS Projects and fixing known issues

Published

11 January 2024

Place of performance

DED51

Procedure

neg-w-call

Lots

1

Notice number

00017579-2024

Reference

6083c1cc-21a8-440f-8c04-569aa56fadab

Official source

Official source

CPV codes

• 72200000Servicios de programación de software y de consultoría

Description

The contractor will develop a working concept based on the following criteria: - Working with participating FOSS infrastructure projects to identify and make an inventory of known issues caused by under-maintenance, including but may not be limited to: - Known bugs or other problems with the codebase that haven"t been addressed due to lack of capacity - Significant technical debt that is caused by lack of maintenance resources - Complexity in the codebase that causes a barrier to long-term maintenance or a threat to the project"s security posture - Missing best practices or structures that could be implemented to enable long term secure maintenance practices. - Develop a roadmap and a work plan to help the projects prioritize and address the known issues that have been identified. - Provided additional capacity, knowledge and code contributions for the projects as needed through: - Providing re-engineering, re-coding, refactoring or removing code services; - Fixing known bugs; - as well as help implementing best practices or standards for future ease of maintenance, such as badge programs or certifications.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the buyer of this tender?

The contracting authority is SPRIND GmbH (European Union).